Smith Mountain (9,540 ft.)

Also Meadow

"'Hetch-Hetchy is claimed by a sheep-owner, named Smith, who drives stock
into it every summer, by a trail which was built by Joseph Screech. It
is often called Smith's Valley.' (John Muir in
Overland Monthly, July 1873: 49-50.) Cyril C. Smith, originally
from Maine, built a cabin in the meadow in 1885. (SCB 36, no. 5,
May 1951: 64.)

Charles F. Hoffmann wrote that he traveled up
the Tuolumne River via Hardin's Rancho to
Cottonwood Creek and 'ascended the highest peak from which I had an
unobstructed view up the Tuolumne Canyon.' He called the peak 'Cottonwood
Peak.' (Hoffmann letter to J. D. Whitney, Sept.
10, 1873, in Hoffmann correspondence, BL.) That name appeared on the
Wheeler Survey atlas sheet 56D, 1878-79, and on
LeConte's, McClure's, and Benson's maps from 1893
to 1896. In 1896 a BGN decision changed the name to Smith Peak, and it
appeared that way on the first Yosemite 30' map, 1897. The name
'Smiths Meadow' first appeared on McClure's 1895 map.

Smith did quite well for himself. He wound up owning 500 acres in and
adjacent to the floor of Hetch Hetchy Valley, and another 800 acres in
Tiltill Valley, at Hog Ranch, and at two other nearby locations. In 1908,
during San Francisco's politcal drive to get control of Hetch Hetchy for
a reservoir, Smith sold all of his property to the city of San Francisco for
$150,000. (YRL files.)"
- Peter Browning, Yosemite Place Names